New year brings promising new series

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The new year is just a week away — and January premieres offer more variety and surprises than the staid fall season. Here are just a few of the shows you’ll be buzzing about:

“Lost’s” Josh Holloway and “CSI’s” Marg Helgenberger return to series work in “Intelligence” (CBS, Jan. 7), about an agent (Holloway) with an advanced computer micro-chip in his brain that gives him access to every website and database in the world. Yes, but can he explain the ending of “Lost”?

“Killer Women” (ABC, Jan. 7) stars Tricia Helfer (“Battlestar Galactica”) as a Texas Ranger who battles sexism in her department while doing whatever is needed to bring down a perp.

Have you ever wondered about the rest of Donnie and Mark Wahlberg’s family? The extended clan takes the spotlight in the unscripted series “Wahlbergers” (A&E, Jan. 23).

Emmy-winner Greg Kinnear is a brilliant criminal defense attorney with a personal life set on “self-destruct” in “Rake” (Fox, Jan. 23).

Inthe miniseries “Fleming: The Man Who Would be Bond” (BBC America, Jan. 29), Dominic Cooper (“Captain America: The Winter Soldier”) plays the spy turned author who used his own iconic creation to work out his family resentments.